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5.2.2025 A10-0003/4

Amendment 4

Denis Nesci, Johan Van Overtveldt

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0003/2025

Anouk Van Brug

European Central Bank – annual report 2024

(2024/2054(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
B. whereas, according to the December 2024 Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area, HICP inflation is projected to decline to 2.1 % in 2025, 1.9 % in 2026, and to increase to 2.1 % in 20275;	B. whereas, according to the December 2024 Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area, HICP inflation is projected to decline to 2.1 % in 2025, 1.9 % in 2026, and to increase to 2.1 % in 20275; whereas inflation projections show substantial variance across the euro area;
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5 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/projections/html/ecb.projections202412_eurosystemstaff~71a06224a5.en.html#toc6.	5 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/projections/html/ecb.projections202412_eurosystemstaff~71a06224a5.en.html#toc6.

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5.2.2025 A10-0003/5

Amendment 5

Denis Nesci, Johan Van Overtveldt

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0003/2025

Anouk Van Brug

European Central Bank – annual report 2024

(2024/2054(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
26. Welcomes the ECB’s progress on the digital euro project and its ongoing dialogue with Parliament; underscores that the digital euro should deliver clear added value to European citizens, including enhanced strategic autonomy in payments, a higher level of competition in the retail payment market, potential to foster innovation in payments and finance, improved financial inclusion and a reliable offline backup payment system; calls on the ECB to clearly communicate these benefits in order to foster public trust and awareness; notes that the EU co-legislators will need to strike the right balance, among others, on holding limits, privacy concerns, competition with private payment solutions and usability in a business context;	26. Notes the ECB’s progress on the digital euro project and welcomes its ongoing dialogue with Parliament; underscores that any digital euro should deliver clear added value to European citizens, including enhanced strategic autonomy in payments, a higher level of competition in the retail payment market, potential to foster innovation in payments and finance, improved financial inclusion and a reliable offline backup payment system; calls on the ECB to clearly demonstrate these benefits before the EU co-legislators decide whether or not to introduce a digital euro that strikes the right balance, among others, on holding limits, privacy concerns, competition with private payment solutions and usability in a business context;

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5.2.2025 A10-0003/6

Amendment 6

Denis Nesci, Johan Van Overtveldt

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0003/2025

Anouk Van Brug

European Central Bank – annual report 2024

(2024/2054(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
28. Reiterates that the digital euro will serve as complement to physical cash, that it should not replace cash and that cash will remain widely available and accessible at all times in order to ensure a plurality of means of payment; welcomes, in that context, the proposal for a regulation on the use of euro cash as legal tender;	28. Reiterates that cash should remain widely available and accessible at all times in order to ensure a plurality of means of payment; welcomes, in that context, the proposal for a regulation on the use of euro cash as legal tender;

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